New Henry 22

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jersurf101

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I have a couple of questions about the rifle itself. Wondering if any of you guys know anything about them. I have not shot the rifle yet but cannot wait to try it out. It is actually a christmas present for my oldest boy(11) so I am going to put it into the safe and try to forget about it until christmas after the test fire. The wood is beautiful on this rifle and the action is as slick as can be.

The rifle is a Henry H001 made in Brooklyn New York

Ser.# 32XXXXH

Can anyone venture a guess or round about manufacture date?

My other question is about the front sight assembly. It is plastic and I am wondering if there is a metal replacement.

I'll post a range report if anyone is interested.
 

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I can't date yours for you, but I have the same rifle.

It has given me more than a decade of shooting, was my first rifle, great shooting little guns, mine shoots about as well as I can shoot it.

Mine has an occasional failure to extract, an issue I have contacted Henry about and they told me to ship it in and they would fix it under their lifetime warranty, I just have not sent it in yet.

The barrel band is probably also plastic, Henry has metal ones as well. As for the front sight, I don't know if henry has a proprietary metal front site, but Hi Viz makes steel replacement that uses the hi viz fiber optic litepipes. For what its worth, my plastic barrel band and front sight are still doing ok after a decade of use, I was around your sons age when I got mine.

I would run some .22 shorts and LR through it during test fire. Its a lot of fun loading 21 shorts into the tube and shooting through them.
 
I have the Henry Golden Boy 22 lr and it is a beautiful rifle. You will enjoy shooting yours. I would leave the original sights on it at least until after you shoot it some.
 
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The Henry Repeating Arms Co moved across NY harbor from Brooklyn, NY to Bayonne, NJ about 18-24 mos ago, so your rifle most likely dates to prior to the move.

Henry has a metal replacement front sight/barrel band.

Why not wait until after Christmas, and let your son testfire his own rifle ?




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Thanks for the replies guys.

I have no intention of replacing the site or the barrel band in the immediate future. That being said I do not trust plastic on the barrel band and it doesn't hurt to know where to get one.

Can't wait to see how it shoots!
 
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